Publications

Paulo Ventura, Alexandre Pereira, Francisco Cruz, Tina T. Liu (2025). Relational processing in faces in paintings varying along a realism continuum. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

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Francisco Cruz, André Mata (2025). Learning psychology changes deep-rooted beliefs about the nature of psychological phenomena: Effects on intuitive dualism and beliefs about science. Learning & Instruction.

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Paulo Ventura, Francisco Cruz (2025). Naturalistic faces and faces in paintings: An overview. Encyclopedia.

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Francisco Cruz, Tania Lombrozo (2025). How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon. Nature Human Behaviour.

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Francisco Cruz, André Mata (2025). Motivated bias blind spot: People confess to more or less bias depending on its desirability. Mind & Society.

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Francisco Cruz, André Mata (2025). Lay perceptions of psychology: The (mis)match between lay beliefs and explanatory stances. Philosophical Psychology.

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Francisco Cruz, André Mata (2025). The spirit is noble, but the flesh is corrupt: Lay beliefs about the bases of (im)moral behavior. Self and Identity.

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Paulo Ventura, Francisco Cruz, Alexandre Pereira (2024). The role of transitional probabilities in word holistic processing. Perception, 03010066241279932.

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Steffen Lippert, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Warren Tierney, Wilson Cyrus-Lai, Eric Luis Uhlmann, Francisco Cruz, Emotion Expression Collaboration, Thomas Pfeiffer (2024). Can large language models help predict results from a complex behavioural science study?. Royal Society Open Science, 11.

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Tomás A. Palma, Alexandre Vieira, Francisco Cruz, André Mata (2024). The effect of face race on metamemory: Examining its robustness and underlying mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

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Francisco Cruz, André Mata (2024). Self-serving beliefs about science: Science justifies my weaknesses (but not other people’s). Public Understanding of Science, 09636625241261320.

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Paulo Ventura, Isabel Leite, Alexandre Pereira, Francisco Cruz (2024). Learned attentional strategies in word holistic processing. Vision, 8 (3).

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Paulo Ventura, Francisco Cruz (2023). Domain specificity vs. Domain generality: The case of faces and words. Vision, 8 (1).

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Paulo Ventura, Mariona Pascual, Francisco Cruz, Susana Araújo (2023). From Perugino to Picasso revisited: Electrophysiological responses to faces in paintings from different art styles. Neuropsychologia, 192 (1).

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Michael Schaerer, Christilene du Plessis, My Nguyen, Robbie van Aert, Leo Thiokin, Daniel Lakens, Elena Clemente, Thomas Pfeiffer, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Cory Clark, Gender Audits Forecasting Collaboration, Eric Uhlmann (2023). On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 179 (1).

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Paulo Ventura, Alexandre Pereira, Francisco Cruz, João Delgado, Bruno Faustino, José Guerreiro (2023). Change detection versus change localization for faces, houses, and words. Perception, 52 (10).

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Paulo Ventura, Tina T. Liu, Francisco Cruz, Alexandre Pereira, Miguel Domingues, José Guerreiro, João Delgado (2023). From Perugino to Picasso: Holistic processing of faces in paintings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17 (4).

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Paulo Ventura, Francisco Cruz (2023). Of faces and words: On domain-specific and domain-general accounts. Journal of Expertise, 6 (3).

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Paulo Ventura, Tina T. Liu, Francisco Cruz, Alexandre Pereira (2023). The mechanisms supporting holistic perception of words and faces are not independent. Memory & Cognition, 51 (4).

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Mario J. Baldassari, Kara N. Moore, Ira E. Hyman Jr, Lorraine Hope, Eric Y. Mah, D. Stephen Lindsay, Jamal Mansour, Renan Saraiva, Ruth Horry, Hannah Rath, Lauren Kelly, Rosie Jones, Shannan Vale, Bethany Lawson, Josh Pedretti, Tomás A. Palma, Francisco Cruz, Joana Quarenta, Ine Van der Cruyssen, Mila Mileva, Jessica Allen, Brittany Jeye, Sara Wiechert (2023). The effect of pre-event instructions on eyewitness identification. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8 (1).

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Francisco Cruz, Tomás A. Palma, Emil Bansemer, Joshua Correll, Sara Fonseca, Patricia Gonçalves, Ana Sofia Santos (2023). Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of Hugenberg, Miller, and Claypool (2007). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 104(1).

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Paulo Ventura, Vince Ngan, Alexandre Pereira, Francisco Cruz, José Guerreiro, Vivienne Rosário, João Delgado, Bruno Faustino, Marta Barros, Miguel Domingues, Alan Wong (2022). The relation between holistic processing as measured by three composite tasks and face processing: A latent variable modeling approach. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(7).

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Paulo Ventura, Alexandre Banha, Francisco Cruz (2022). Partial overlap between holistic processing of words and Gestalt line stimuli at an early perceptual stage. Memory & Cognition, 50(6).

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Paulo Ventura, José Guerreiro, Alexandre Pereira, João Delgado, Vivienne Rosário, António Farinha-Fernandes, Miguel Domingues, Francisco Cruz, Bruno Faustino, Alan Wong (2022). Change detection vs. change localization for own-race and other-race faces. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(3).

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Paulo Ventura, João Delgado, José Guerreiro, Francisco Cruz, Vivienne Rosário, António Farinha-Fernandes, Miguel Domingues, Ana Margarida Sousa (2020). Further evidence for a late locus of holistic word processing: Exploring vertex effect in the word composite task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(7).

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